He was making a name for himself in the world of conspiracy theorists and had been invited to speak at a conference in Poland in July. He was staying with a woman who he had not known for long and she told me how she found him dead on the sofa. […] I think Max had been digging in some dark places and I fear that somebody wanted him dead.

To add to the speculation that Spiers had dug too deep into an unknown sinister plot, there is the curious text message he sent his mother. Just days before Spiers was found dead, he apparently sent a text message to his mother which suggests he foresaw his impending death: